endgame
urgh. i dunno what i want. i am super disillusioned with my career. i think that there just isnt the kind of fun and excitement available to me that i had hoped that there was. i want some company that will just give me free reigns, and that doesnt really happen anymore. unless its something that i do for myself.
ive spent my life making money for the man. i'm a creative prostitute, nothing more. a design whore. a talent slut. too smart to fall into line, and too dumb to jump ship. i dont get it. i can take a multi-million dollar company, and i know exactly what to do with its identity. i can launch a billion-dollar shoe for nike. i can take a shitty rag and make it into the worlds coolest magazine. i can realign the personality of a failing furniture retailer and make it profitable. if i can do all that for someone else, why cant i do it for me? i think i want to do my own thing. i think im bored of having a boss and i need to strike out on my own.
i think i want to open up a shop thingy. like a shop thats a cafe and sells design bits and books and some clothes and records and and... you know. stuff that has the ted seal of approval. in a really relaxed, fun way. nothing too cool. im sick of cool. cool is dead. maybe its part dover street market, part corso como, part moss, part conran shop, part hipster supermarket. so its a shop, its a bar, its a restaurant, its a venue, its a bookstore, its a cafe, its a place to hang out... its a beacon of energy and creativity; a locale for change. ive spent my life looking for it, but i can make it happen. its the next step in culture -- the unified theory. our motto will be 'cool shit still happens here.' ha! i love that. cool shit happens here.
and i think the tyranny of the great metropolises is over. the more i think about it, the more i realise. the balance of power, all the excitement and all the creativity is draining out of new york, london, tokyo, etc. nobody cool can afford to live here anymore. nobody wants to live here anymore. the next cultural revolution will come from the second tier. places like berlin, barcelona, toronto, chicago, melbourne. and i think that a part of that is because the work/life balance in those places means that peoples priorities are right. new york is like a graveyard; londons burning; paris can fuck right off.
its time for the endgame.
im babbling. or im free associating. but you know im making sense. its stuff youve been thinking about, too. my life works in punctuated equilibrium -- sudden evolution. its time for the next phase. i just gotta figure out what that is.
im going to berlin on monday. for a week. i'm planning on locking myself in a flat in kreuzberg and not coming out until i have some answers. i'll keep you posted.
ive spent my life making money for the man. i'm a creative prostitute, nothing more. a design whore. a talent slut. too smart to fall into line, and too dumb to jump ship. i dont get it. i can take a multi-million dollar company, and i know exactly what to do with its identity. i can launch a billion-dollar shoe for nike. i can take a shitty rag and make it into the worlds coolest magazine. i can realign the personality of a failing furniture retailer and make it profitable. if i can do all that for someone else, why cant i do it for me? i think i want to do my own thing. i think im bored of having a boss and i need to strike out on my own.
i think i want to open up a shop thingy. like a shop thats a cafe and sells design bits and books and some clothes and records and and... you know. stuff that has the ted seal of approval. in a really relaxed, fun way. nothing too cool. im sick of cool. cool is dead. maybe its part dover street market, part corso como, part moss, part conran shop, part hipster supermarket. so its a shop, its a bar, its a restaurant, its a venue, its a bookstore, its a cafe, its a place to hang out... its a beacon of energy and creativity; a locale for change. ive spent my life looking for it, but i can make it happen. its the next step in culture -- the unified theory. our motto will be 'cool shit still happens here.' ha! i love that. cool shit happens here.
and i think the tyranny of the great metropolises is over. the more i think about it, the more i realise. the balance of power, all the excitement and all the creativity is draining out of new york, london, tokyo, etc. nobody cool can afford to live here anymore. nobody wants to live here anymore. the next cultural revolution will come from the second tier. places like berlin, barcelona, toronto, chicago, melbourne. and i think that a part of that is because the work/life balance in those places means that peoples priorities are right. new york is like a graveyard; londons burning; paris can fuck right off.
its time for the endgame.
im babbling. or im free associating. but you know im making sense. its stuff youve been thinking about, too. my life works in punctuated equilibrium -- sudden evolution. its time for the next phase. i just gotta figure out what that is.
im going to berlin on monday. for a week. i'm planning on locking myself in a flat in kreuzberg and not coming out until i have some answers. i'll keep you posted.